As West Bengal geared up for the April-May 2011 Assembly polls, President of India Sri Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee joined the Congress and was fielded as the party's candidate and won the Nalhati Constituency in Birbhum District of West Bengal with 76047 votes polled in his favour. He won with a comfortable of 15160 compared to his immediate rival of All India Forward Bloc.

For the last 44 years since 1967, Nalhati has always voted for a left front candidate in the assembly elections that is from even before the Left Front Government came to power in 1977. No right wing candidate has ever won an assembly contest from Nalhati. It has been a left front stronghold.

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Thoughts that guide Abhijit Mukherjee

Lord Buddha stayed with the courtesan Amrapali and ate food by her and she later became her disciple. Similarly, Mary Magdalene was a fallen woman (according to the Gospel of Luke as interpreted by Pope Gregory) and Jesus allowed her to wash his feet and she later became her disciple.